Saturday, September 15, 2012

IP Addresses and Domains of Google's Data Centers


The progression of a Google Dance couldbasically be watched by querying the IP addresses of Google's data centers. But queries on the IP addresses are normallyredirected to www.google.com. However, Google has domains, which resolve to the single data centers' IP addresses. These domains as well as their IP addresses are shown in the following list.

Google Data Centers List June 2012
209.85.137.nnn - gfe-mg/mg2/mg3
209.85.141.nnn - gfe-pq/pq2/pq3
209.85.147.nnn - gfe-wa/wa2/wa3
209.85.149.nnn - gfe-hr
209.85.153.nnn - gfe-im
209.85.159.nnn - gfe-fh/fh2/fh3
209.85.161.nnn - gfe-mk/mk2/mk3/mk4
209.85.163.nnn - gfe-?/?2/?3/?4 - (NO GFE name allocated - direct access by IP address only - where nnn is 107,104,99,147,103, etc).
209.85.165.nnn - gfe-eo/eo2/eo3/eo4
209.85.167.nnn - gfe-da/da2/da3/da4
209.85.169.nnn - gfe-rc/rc2/rc3/rc4
209.85.171.nnn - gfe-cg/cg2/cg3/cg4
209.85.173.nnn - gfe-mh/mh2/mh3/mh4
209.85.175.nnn - gfe-tc/tc2/tc3
209.85.193.nnn - gfe-br/br2/br3/br4

(access by direct IP address and by br-in-fnnn.google.comURL format only -where nnn is 107,104,99,147,103, etc - NO ACCESS by GFE name).

209.85.195.nnn - gfe-rg/rg2 - (access bydirect IP address and by rg-in-fnnn.google.comURL format only - where nnn is 107,104,99 (but not 147,103), etc - NO ACCESS by GFE name).

209.85.197.nnn - gfe-bd
209.85.201.nnn - gfe-wf/wf2/wf3/wf4
209.85.203.nnn - gfe-pn/pn2/pn3/pn4
209.85.207.nnn - gfe-ya/ya2/ya3/ya4
209.85.209.nnn - gfe-yb
209.85.215.nnn - gfe-ye
209.85.237.nnn - gfe-? - (NO GFE name allocated - direct access by IP address only - where nnn is 107,104 (but not 99,147,103), etc).
Those without a GFE name or which resolve only by direct IP address are the most interesting.
Domain IP Address
www-ex.google.com 216.239.33.100
www-sj.google.com 216.239.35.100
www-va.google.com 216.239.37.100
www-dc.google.com 216.239.39.100
www-ab.google.com 216.239.51.100
www-in.google.com 216.239.53.100
www-zu.google.com 216.239.55.100
www-cw.google.com 216.239.57.100
www-fi.google.com 216.239.41.100
www-gv.google.com 216.239.59.100

Note:
Searches at www-zu and www-sj are currently redirected to other data centers. Since results for searches at their IP addresses fluctuate heavily during a Google Dance, also these searches seem to be internally routed toother data centers.
Those that keep an eye on Google's index updates often think that the Google Dance is over, when they see thenew index at www.google.comor when they don't see the old index at www.google.comfor some time. In fact, the update is not finished until all the domains listed above provide results from the new index.
The index updates at the single data centers seem to happen at one point in time. As soon as one data center shows results from the new index, it won't switch back to the old index. This happens most likely because the index isredundant at each data center and at first, only one part of the servers (eventually half of them) is updated. During this period, only the other half of the servers is active and provides searchresults.As soon as the update of the first half of servers is finished, they become active and provide search results while the other half receives the new index. Thus, from the user's perspective, the update of one data centers happens at one pointin time.
www-ab.google.com, www-cw.google.com, www-dc.google.com, www-ex.google.com, www-fi.google.com, www-in.google.com, www-sj.google.com, www-va.google.comand www-zu.google.compoint at Google's datacentres.
When those nine return the same backlinks, that would normally be the sign that the update has finished. It's best to think of www.google.com, www2.google.com, www3.google.comand toolbarqueries.google.comas load balancing domains that can be pointed atdatacentres.
www2.google.com and www3.google.comhave been pointed at datacentres with the new index some time before www.google.comstarts to show it. There's no reason why any of these four domains shouldn't swap between old and new indices during the update process, hence the term 'Google dance'.
The unusual thing this time is that the link: search and Toolbar PageRank returned by the nine www- domains appear to be old. It would seem sensible to expect a second half to this update, unless Google have something else up their sleeve.

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